I began to understand the myriad things by chopping wood

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The next day, Xie Yuan had a good sleep and a full meal to recover the strength consumed in yesterday's battle. After resting up, he went to the special pharmacy in the inner courtyard of the escort agency, revealed his identity to the old doctor inside, and asked for a top-grade medicinal bath.

The pharmacy was well prepared, and soon he was invited to the bathroom next door, where a large wooden barrel of steaming brown liquid was ready.

“The colors of Chinese medicines all look similar…”

After everyone left, Xie Yuan took off his clothes and took out the white porcelain bottle. He poured a yellow pill into his hand, looked at it for a moment, and then raised his head to swallow it.

Then he stepped into the wooden barrel and began the medicinal bath.

As to which one to use first, the Jinyu Pills or the medicinal bath, Xie Yuan thought about it for a long time yesterday with some boredom, and finally decided not to favor one over the other and use them together!
Anyway, medicated baths strengthen the muscles from the outside in, while pills nourish the blood from the inside out. The two do not conflict.

Especially the medicinal bath for training the body takes a long time. Someone told him yesterday that it would take at least six hours.

After all, compared to the skin-training medicinal bath that directly strengthens the skin, the flesh-training medicinal bath, no matter how effective it is, if you want to moisten the muscles, you have to soak them for a while longer and thoroughly before the effects can reach the inside.

During this period, there was nothing to do except practicing martial arts.

So Xie Yuan decided to take a medicinal bath and use the Jinyu Pills to refine the medicinal power after he recovered his spirit today, combining internal and external methods to achieve the best strengthening effect.

After soaking in the wooden barrel, Xie Yuan tensed his whole body a little nervously, waiting for the extreme numbness and tingling sensation he had experienced in previous medicinal baths.

As a result, he waited for a long time, but apart from the heat of the medicine and a slight sense of moistness spreading throughout his body, he didn't feel anything special.

When the Jinyu Pill entered the stomach, there was no immediate reaction, as if one had just eaten a candy bean, and it was not even as sweet as a candy bean.

"Did you encounter a fake? Or two?"

Xie Yuan was slightly puzzled, and speculated that the effect of the medicinal bath would be stimulated slowly, and would only appear when it reached the muscle layer. If it reacted immediately, it would act on the skin;

As for the pills, if we exclude the factor of Vajra Sect cutting corners, these pills will probably have to be digested slowly. After all, they are not the magical elixirs in novels that turn into spiritual springs as soon as they enter the mouth. If that were the case, Vajra Sect would have to be an immortal sect.

So Xie Yuan waited patiently, just like taking a hot bath. Sure enough, within half an hour, he felt a heat beneath his skin, and all the muscles in his body seemed to start twitching.

"Different medicines, but equally unbearable."

Xie Yuan frowned slightly, feeling the medicinal effect seeping into his muscles. The powerful effect of the top-grade medicinal bath shortened the strengthening process that should have accumulated over time to a moment, and the price was the constant trembling and pain of his muscles.

At the same time, the Jinyu Pills in the stomach were also slowly being digested, with the medicinal power blending into the blood bit by bit, replenishing the pure blood and qi, making it gradually thicker, and then automatically blending into the muscles, accelerating the process of building muscle.

“Sour and refreshing…”

Seeing the progress in front of him rising rapidly, Xie Yuan's brows relaxed and he instantly felt less uncomfortable.

He used his internal energy, calmed his mind, and silently felt the changes in his body.

Six hours later.

[Iron Shirt: Level 1573: (2000/)]

Xie Yuan looked at the numbers that had not flashed in front of him for a long time, confirmed that the effect of the medicine had been absorbed, and stepped out of the wooden barrel.

Over six hundred, nearly seven hundred points!
Within one day, the progress of body building increased by one third!

The effect of this medicinal bath combined with Jinyu Pills is so good!
Even the second practice seemed to be right before my eyes.

Xie Yuan couldn't help but clench his fists, his eyes filled with excitement.

Thank you to the Escort Agency and thank you to the King Kong Gate!

At this moment, the blood and energy in his chest were nearly half as strong as before, and the quality was much stronger;
The muscles all over the body have been transformed and are as solid as iron.

Looking closely, the originally thin body seemed to have become larger due to the engorgement of muscles. Although it was still very well-proportioned, his whole body was filled with a sense of strength.

With every move he made, Xie Yuan felt that his strength had increased a lot, especially his explosive power, which was 30% stronger than before.

After taking a medicinal bath, his strength increased by leaps and bounds. No wonder so many people were envious when they saw him get the reward. With such an effect, even a warrior with inferior talent could be forced to improve his strength.

"If I fight Monto again now, I won't have to fight him slowly and bloodily. I can find an opportunity and slash him with a few blows, which will be enough to break his defense and kill him."

Recalling the battle with Monto yesterday, Xie Yuan relied on his inner strength to move his feet so that Monto couldn't even touch his shadow. Although it was not difficult to win, he was deeply impressed by Monto's defense.

Not only is Monto born with a strong physique, the Vajra Sect's Rock Power also has something to do with it, otherwise he would not have become a powerful force dominating Yunzhao by relying on his hard work.

The iron shirt that Xie Yuan is currently practicing pales in comparison.

"If I had the same skills, I wouldn't dare to let him touch me."

Xie Yuan pondered.

You still have to stand to output. If you have strong hard skills, the tolerance rate in combat will be much higher.

But there is no need to rush. Anyway, I don’t have enough merit now. I can practice the Iron Shirt first and break through to the second level first.

The training methods in the external training stage can be changed at any time. After all, the strengthening of your blood and body are your own and have no special attributes, so there is not much conflict in changing the training methods.

Many energetic warriors will practice hard skills such as Iron Shirt.

It won’t be too late to switch to a better technique when you have enough merit later.

Now, I must first train my body to perfection as soon as possible, become a second-level martial artist, and make another qualitative change in my strength!
The effect of the medicinal bath was so good that Xie Yuan decided to accumulate merit first. By the time he had accumulated enough merit for another medicinal bath, the medicinal properties in his body would have been almost digested. He then used the second medicinal bath to make a breakthrough in one fell swoop, just like the previous breakthrough in the first training session.

At least in the first two of the four stages of external training, the effect of medicinal bathing is excellent; only when it comes to the last two stages of "stretching muscles and strengthening bones", ordinary medicinal bathing is no longer so effective.

"You have to accumulate more merits, skills, medicinal baths, and even weapons and treasures... Poor in literature, rich in martial arts, practicing martial arts is a way to consume resources."

Xie Yuan shook his head and sighed, feeling deeply his own poverty.

After I cleaned up and left the bathroom, it was already dark.

Xie Yuan was just about to go back to his room when he ran into Kong Chun, who had escorted him for the first time, on the way. Kong Chun bowed and congratulated him from a distance:

"Xiao Xie, congratulations!"

"Thank you, Brother Kong."

Xie Yuan thought he was talking about winning the competition and getting the reward, but he didn't understand the next sentence at all.

"Hey, Xiao Xie, now that you're an escort, you must take me on more missions in the future! I feel safer with you."

"What? What escort?"

Xie Yuan was confused.

Kong Chun was also stunned when he saw his expression:
"You don't even know it yourself? Today, Boss Zhao went to the chief escort and told him that with your ability, even if your merits are not enough, he would let you be a junior escort directly. The chief escort agreed.

"Xiao Xie, you are now a junior escort! Hey, ten taels of silver a month, and you get extra merits for missions. Hey, it's really enviable..."

Kong Chun was envious and sighed, but Xie Yuan was a little confused.

It was not until he returned that he found that a servant had helped him pack up his things and moved them to the larger escort master's residence, and informed him that "Master Xie, please go out to escort the escort tomorrow." Xie Yuan enjoyed the treatment of a middle-level official, and it was only then that he woke up from his dream.

Is this what makes you a bodyguard?

I haven't even called once...

(End of this chapter)